Show theano ROG e has tile the following remarks norman indman ak can now I 1 say that w we have V C made no progress of the legion claimed as belonging to the southern confederacy we firm firmly y hold west virginia kentucky nearly all of tennessee li missour Misso nii i most of arkansas more than half of louisiana a good part of mississippi with portions of old virginia coith carolina south carolina F loeida FIo iida texas most of the indian territory new mexico and arizona nearly half tile white population claimed as belonging 0 to the confederacy are this tin s day under the federal hag flag and no longer subject to conscription to fill the aebel armies 0 our gains within the past year more than half overthrow overt hiow the confederacy as it stood when the final proclamation of freedom was issued give us one moie years work so effective as the last and the confederacy will be prostrate the slaves at first a powerful element clement of strength to the rebellion y are so no longer they now know that enlon hilans means freed freedom bm and they ara are uneasy excited anxious and vigilant it no longer answers ans wera as it once did 0 to o leave or of them under the care ef cf a they take to conr lines and an d columns exactly as a du dicktakes duck takes to ta A water vater the falsehoods that once lepelley lepel led them keep them back no longen lon gerThe the rebels daro dare not no tarm arm because they cannot trust they work f fitfully and need sharp watching AS A s a wh 1 they havo have gradually and a all I 1 I 1 but en cn chely ceased to be an element clement of strength to the confederacy i there demaid then but the whites of tho the disloyal mcgron 0 to overcome and their thein total num bevis beris about 4 of whom they can place in the field but |